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Sadface

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From: Germany

Registered: 2009-12-09

Posts: 47

[Possible bug] filesystem-2017.12 ignores /etc/locale.conf

I am not sure if this is a bug or just a fact of being on [testing], so I am posting this here first rather than immediately filing a bug.

Yesterday after running Syu, I noticed my system locale being set to "C" after reboot, naturally completely breaking UTF-8 support. I haven't touched my /etc/locale.conf (still set to LANG=de_DE.utf8) and if I set LANG manually or use ~/.config/locale.conf, everything works as usual. On further inspection, it turns out that filesystem-2017.12-2 introduced a change in /etc/profile.d/locale.sh, compared to 2017-10-2:

+# load locale.conf in XDG paths.
+# /etc/locale.conf loads and overrides by kernel command line is done by systemd
 if [ -z "$LANG" ]; then
   if [ -n "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME" ] && [ -r "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/locale.conf" ]; then
     . "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/locale.conf"
   elif [ -n "$HOME" ] && [ -r "$HOME/.config/locale.conf" ]; then
     . "$HOME/.config/locale.conf"
-  elif [ -r /etc/locale.conf ]; then
-    . /etc/locale.conf
   fi
 fi

The comment states that systemd should fill this role, but on my system it just falls back to C locale using systemd 236.0-2.

jasonwryan

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From: .nz

Registered: 2009-05-09

Posts: 30,424

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Re: [Possible bug] filesystem-2017.12 ignores /etc/locale.conf

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/56688

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